Dear Mr. President

I'm not usually very political.  I try to stay below the radar and keep my views to myself.  But Mr. Trump has gone too far and I will not stand silent as human beings suffer.  So I wrote a letters to my Senators and House Representative and even the President himself.  Below is the text of my letter.  Please copy some or all of it and write to your representatives too.  Because humans are suffering and we cannot stand by in our comfortable, heated homes with food and water and watch it happen and still call ourselves decent people.

January 30, 2017

Dear Senator,

I am a stay-at-home mother of four and resident of Charlotte, North Carolina.  I am writing this letter to you as a fellow human being in behalf of the many refugees and immigrants trying to enter our country.  The illustrious Dr. Suess wrote, “A person’s a person no matter how small.”  To apply that to our current situation, I think it’s fair to say, A person’s a person no matter how Syrian or Iranian or Iraqi or Mexican.  People deserve to be treated well simply because they are human.

Our country has a long history of xenophobia despite our invitation to “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses” inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.  Examples of this range from discrimination against the Irish and Chinese in the nineteenth century to turning back ship loads of Jewish refugees and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.  We look back on these events with guilt and shame that we failed to maintain American values and treat others with respect and dignityπ.  We will feel that same guilt and shame if we do not act to help the refugees and immigrants from any country.  Refugees and immigrants deserve our help because they are human.

I ask you, as president and a human, please, oppose and do whatever is in your power to reverse President Trump’s Executive Order stopping immigration and his Executive Order to build a border wall with Mexico, as both orders promote a profound xenophobia and fail to exhibit American morals of inclusion and acceptance.  Please help reduce human suffering by allowing or even increasing the number of refugees and immigrants to our country.

Thank you,

Heather Baker

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